Yoshida: "Only 100 people will beat Twintania before 2.1" Have you?

if they didn't nerf twisters their number wouldn't have been too far off. Also, considering more then 3 or 4 times as many players are playing then they planned for the number would be a bit off due to that also. And given 2.1 is more then a month later due to all the work to allow all the extra players they didn't expect. Look 1 month ago and the 100 was'nt too far off

Completely irrelevant since the flurry of FCs completing turn 5 after they made the twister much less unforgiving. The statement didn't account for them changing that, so there's no place to badmouth the developers on the estimated time. By the looks of it, if they didnt touch Twintania, it probably would've been true.

Finished it awhile ago.

Been stuck at T5 for a month. Haven't seen twister phase yet. -sigh-

What KogaDrake said. Only one group legitimately beat it before the nerf.

A lot more than 100 people have beaten turn 5. It doesn't even have much to do with the adjustments that were made (The hardest part of the fight is honestly near the beginning). Once it was beaten the first time, many more victories would follow because everyone else could copy a known winning strategy (and subsequently be able to develop others).

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What KogaDrake said. Only one group legitimately beat it before the nerf.

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As I said above, the nerf has little to do with it, but I'm not so sure your statement is accurate.

One part of the fight was nerfed a bit, but another part of the fight had an exploit fixed- and that's the part of the fight the vast majority of people get stuck on. As I said above, people are beating it because they know of a strategy that works since it was beaten the first time- This knowledge reduces the amount of trial and error that goes into a group's run and allows them to focus more on execution.

I'll be honest, I think Twister needed to be designed better overall. The mechanic shouldn't have been based on tricking the server into believing your position was in a certain spot, and then beating it within a few ms. The overall encounter isn't bad, but I don't feel Twister was properly handed right the first time.

It would be like waiting until the Landslide bar is half way done, and then running out and the server updating your position in a sliver of time to miss it. Kinda silly considering you should just be able to run out.

It is arguably too easy now though.

People forget that by the date of that statement patch 2.1 was planned to come out last week.

statement was from before twisters were nerfed.

In this thread people complain about game difficulty not knowing content was nerfed for them.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

A lot more than 100 people have beaten turn 5. It doesn't even have much to do with the adjustments that were made (The hardest part of the fight is honestly near the beginning). Once it was beaten the first time, many more victories would follow because everyone else could copy a known winning strategy (and subsequently be able to develop others).

As I said above, the nerf has little to do with it, but I'm not so sure your statement is accurate.

One part of the fight was nerfed a bit, but another part of the fight had an exploit fixed- and that's the part of the fight the vast majority of people get stuck on. As I said above, people are beating it because they know of a strategy that works since it was beaten the first time- This knowledge reduces the amount of trial and error that goes into a group's run and allows them to focus more on execution.

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Exactly this. In the age if information sharing, it's just going to be a domino effect when people just have to follow a step-by-step guide that has been proven to work.